EXCLUSIVE:ACCEPT: "WE WANT TO PLAY WITH AN ORCHESTRA AGAIN" 5th August 2017
Accept played the biggest gig of their impressive career at Wacken on Thursday night and Wolf Hoffman spoke to TotalRock the morning after the night before about the performance and new album, 'The Rise Of Chaos', which was released the day after the German maestros slayed Wacken's main stage.
An enthusiastic Wolf, bubbling with triumph from the previous evening, told TotalRock's Whitney Alyson Ribbins that he wants to do more orchestral performances with his band of iconic Teutonic Terrors.
"Fabulous and wet", was how Wolf described how he felt as the rain lashed down on the Holy Ground of Wacken and the guitar virtuoso went on to explain his thoughts in the run up to what was Accept's crowning moment.
"It was phenomenal. We didn't really know what to expect. We did some rehearsals and stuff but that was the first time we were ever on stage with an orchestra.
"It was totally different to what we normally do but it sounded fantastic and it felt great, everybody was smiling, the orchestra people had a lot of fun, the conductor was in a great mood and everybody was like... 'this is fun'.
"Tt all went really, really smooth and it couldn't have gone better.
"A lot of preparation went into it, months of talking about it and organising everything and writing the scores and writing all the sheet music for everybody because playing with an orchestra, you can't just jam."
When asked whether this was something he would like to carry on doing, Wolf didn't hesitate in saying:
"Yeah - I'd love to.
"For me, classical music... the sound of an orchestra is something that has always fascinated me. My whole life I have wanted to combine the two elements together.
"I've done it by using classical bits and pieces in my solos over the years, then I made a solo record, then I made a solo record with an orchestra and now finally live on stage with an orchestra like that, fifty people, it was a dream come true and hopefully we get to do it again some time."
Wolf went on to speak about Thursday's three-part performance that will surely go down in Wacken history and Accept's new album, 'The Rise Of Chaos', which was released yesterday and has already made a massive impact.
You can hear the full interview with Wolf on TotalRock radio in the next few days. In the meantime, make sure you don't drink any of that Koolaid.
'The Rise Of Chaos' European tour
12th January: (DE) Hamburg - Mehr! Theater 13th January: (DE) Filderstadt - Filharmonie 14th January: (DE) Munich - TonHalle 16th January: (DE) Leipzig - Haus Auensee 17th January: (DE) Berlin - Huxleys 19th January: (DE) Geiselwind - Eventzentrum 20th January: (CZ) Zlín - Euronics 21st January: (HU) Budapest - Barba Negra 23rd January: (IT) Milano - Live Music Club 24th January: (CH) Zurich - Komplex 457 26th January: (ES) Barcelona - Sala Razzmatazz 27th January: (ES) Madrid - La Riviera 28th January: (ES) Bilbao - Santana 27 30th January: (FR) Saint-Étienne - Le FIL 1st February: (FR) Lille - L'Aéronef 2nd February: (DE) Saarbrücken - Garage 3rd February: (CH) Lausanne - Les Docks 4th February: (DE) Frankfurt - Batschkapp 6th February: (NL) Eindhoven - Effenaar 7th February: (BE) Antwerpen - Trix 8th February: (UK) London - Koko 9th February: (DE) Oberhausen - Turbinenhalle 11th February: (DK) Copenhagen - Vega 12th February: (NO) Oslo - Rockefeller 14th February: (SWE) Gothenburg - Trädgår'n 15th February: (SWE) Stockholm - Cruise 17th February: (FI) Turku - Logomo 18th February: (FI) Helsinki - The Circus
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